Rabbi Eliyahu Tal - Rabbi
Ray Morris - President
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Important Messages
- We are now taking reservations for seats during the High Holidays. You can go to our website under High Holidays to get the form.
- Rosh Hashanah Schedule now on our webpage.
Friday
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:40pm
Saturday -- Parashat Shoftim
- Youth Groups for Ages 3 to 8 in the Upper Classrooms: 9:30 - 11:00am
- Junior Congregation for ages 6 to 12 in the Beit Midrash: 10am - 10:30am
- Shacharit: 8:45am
- Kiddush After Services (Sponsored by Daniel Rushefsky and his family)
- Avot Ubanim: 6:20pm
- Rashi Class: 6:50pm
- Mincha: 7:30pm — Followed by:
- Se'udah Sh'lshit
- Arvit and End of Shabbat: 8:40pm
Sunday
- S'lihot: 7:15am
- Shacharit: 8:00pm
- Nach Class for Women on Zoom: 10:00am
- Children's Torah Reading Class: 6:20pm
- Halachot Class: 7:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Monday
- S'lihot: 6:00am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:45am
- Halachot Class: 6:40pm
- Mincha and Arvit: 7:00pm
Tuesday
- S'lihot: 6:00am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:45am
- The Questions in Our Community: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
Wednesday
- S'lihot: 6:00am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:45am
- Rabbeinu Bahya: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
Thursday
- S'lihot: 6:00am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:45am
- Insights on the Parasha: 6:40pm
- Mincha/Arvit: 7:00pm
- Talmud Class in Hebrew: 7:40pm
Next Friday
- S'lihot: 6:00am
- Shacharit: 6:30am
- Talmud: (Indoors and Zoom) 7:45am
- Mincha: 7:00pm
- Candle Lighting: 7:30pm
News and Events
- A New and Easy Way to Give Tzedakah -- Dollar a Day of Raritan Valley
- Statement from the Vaad about Ben and Jerry's
- RWJ/Barnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Break Ground on the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center
- Support the Highland Park First Aid Squad
- Report Incidents of Antisemitism in Town Right Away
- Be´siyata dishmaya - Con la ayuda del Cielo
- שיעור במסכת ברכות
Bikur Cholim of Congregation Etz Ahaim
- The Regency Nursing Home is currently closed to visitors.
- Drivers and coordinators needed. Call (732) 572-7181 for more information.
The congregation extends refua shelema wishes to:
- Lyudmila Chaya bat Riva
- Moshe ben Rachel Monavar
- Liba Shaindel bat Chava Sachs
- Gershon Ben Sara
- Chava bat Esther
- Chaya Sarah Leah bat Shifra
If you like to add someone to this list, or merely want the Rabbi to say a Mi Shaberach on someone after Torah reading on Shabbat, please go to our webpage and fill out the form.
Community News
Learning Mishna in Memory of Zahav Green, Brother of Reza Green and Brother-in-Law of Rabbi Moshe Silver. Please register at Hadran Alach.
The Shnainu Shidduch Group of Edison & Highland Park, is proud to wish a Mazal Tov to Josh Schwartz and Ariella Himelstein on their upcoming marriage! We continue to welcome and accept shidduch profiles. For more info or to submit your profile, please email us. Thank you.
Netivot presents the first annual Dr. Aryeh Zinkin Memorial Scholarship Brunch featuring renowned Jewish Montessori educator, Rabbi Jonathan Rietti. They are honoring Morah Niza Kassin with the faculty award, and Ms. Rhea Zucker with the volunteer award.
The breakfast will take place on Sunday, August 15 at 10:00 a.m. at Ohr Torah. Visit: their website to RSVP.
Jewish Family Services urgently needs volunteers to deliver meals to homebound seniors in Edison and East Brunswick on Monday and Friday mornings.
Volunteers would, preferably, make deliveries every week, but every other week would also be helpful. Volunteers are vital to this service, ensuring that vulnerable, elderly adults do not go hungry.
If you delivered Kosher Meals on Wheels meals in the past and took a break during the pandemic, JFS would be most eager and grateful to have you back! email Family Services to find your place on the schedule.
Raritan Valley Hadassah Presents Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner, BCC Renewal and Redesign—How to Invigorate Our Celebration of the High Holidays Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:30 PM, on Zoom.
Rabbi Kinzbrunner is the Director of Religious and Spiritual Services for the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living in Somerset, NJ and the President of Neshama, the Association of Jewish Chaplains.
Lev LaChayal is a program that provides housing and support to lone solders (solders with no family in Israel) while they're on their army breaks. You can help support this program by going to their webpage.
Tiferes
- Elul DVD on Motzai Shabbos, August 14 at 10:00pm at the Siegel house. For women only.
- Weekly teleconferences with topics such as shalom bayis and parenting are available to Tiferes members.
For more info or to become a member, please contact Aviva.
The Highland Park/Edison group of Tiferes is zecher l'nishmas Malka bas Shalom.
Lefkovits Family Park Mikvah
The Mikvah is currently by appointment only. All preparations should be done at home. No showers or baths at the mikvah.
All appointments must be made via our appointment page
Women's Learning Initiative offers customized Torah learning partners/chavrusas! For a personalized study program of your choice, email your contact information to womenslearninginitiative@gmail.com
ACTT
- Current Module: The Six Constant Mitzvos 2
- Source Book: Artscroll's Constant Connection -- Deepening Your Emunah through the Six Constant Mitzvos by Rabbi Yitzchak Coopersmith
Rabbi Yisroel Weiss' Tehillim Shiur for Men and Women:
On Zoom:
- Wednesday night at 8:00pm
- Meeting ID: 858 5198 8386
- Password: RWTehillims
- To join by phone:
- Dial 408-638-0968
- Enter Meeting ID
- Use Passcode 705203.
Any questions, please contact Marsha Eiserman 347-203-7906